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Most hand-drawn animation is shot on twos

Each drawing is photographed twice, so twelve drawings fill a second At 24 frames per second, animators usually expose each drawing for two frames, which means a second of film needs twelve drawings rather than 24. Shooting on twos halves the work and gives the slight stepping that audiences read as hand-drawn character. Some fast action is shot on ones for extra smoothness. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Each drawing is photographed twice, so twelve drawings fill a second. The figure is taken from BFI, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.